Ai safety people, much like "safety" people in customer facing web companies, were taken on in the second half of the 2010s as a concession to various left-aligned activist groups in what may be accurately described less as being down with the revolution and more as please don't hurt me here's a no-work job for your cousin.

That is to say, these people were political officers whose grasp of the tech or the implications of the tech was always secondary to their political loyalties.

Now that many of them have been outed as no longer useful or necessary, y'all can stop pretending like their opinion is worth anymore than yours is, and you may also proceed to evaluate the technology on its merits, not on its propaganda cloud.

Yes. Because up is down and Democrats are gun-totin' libertarians now. /sarc

Back in the real world, cops have been asking for privately owned surveillance recordings to help with investigations since video recording became a thing. And the very reason people (usually businesses) have set up video surveillance was to deter crime and help track down crooks who were insufficiently deterred.

None of it is bad. Attaching a political valence to it so that half the country thinks its manna from heaven and the other thinks it's the devils brew is what is distinctly unwise.

No possible downsides!

Clearly it's the lizard people that faked the footprints.

I keep it in my desk drawer when you're not looking.

There is at least one sheep, at least one side of which is black.

Not just in the headline of tfa.

Here's a neat little gem:

How in the fuck would such a thing be meaningful? It's not like there's an ensemble of parallel universe economies out there you could interrogate with your handy dandy interdimensional portal to validate the quality of this probability distribution. There's exactly one economy and exactly one right now and exactly one actual growth rate, cpi, etc.

There *is* such a thing as an error distribution of an estimator for any particular statistic. But this error distribution (while it may be interpreted as a forward looking probability) is inherently a backward looking statistic. And it is misleading at best to assert that it is a "realtime probability estimate" for an event with exactly one occurance.

Your value of "recently" may vary depending on circumstances. I went to college 20 years ago and did a round in grad school 10 years ago. Comparable places in near enough parts of the country.

The boundaries of allowable discourse narrowed noticeably during that ten year gap, and I understand they've narrowed some more since.

It wasn't no knuckle-dragging rethuglicans that imposed that from on high. It was very much sui generis.

If you didn't build that apartment building, there wouldn't have been the crash. Duh.

Maybe just surrender to the Chinese and start using emojis for everything.

Chinese constitution guarantees freedom of speech: just as you can stand on the Mall in DC and shout "Down with Trump" you can stand in the middle of Tienanmen Square and shout "Down with Trump."

Chinese constitution and American constitution both guarantee freedom of speech. Only slight difference is the American constition also guarantees freedom after the speech.

Or they're building more generating capacity to charge up all those advanced sodium battery EVs and city buses I keep reading about. Which would still be a lie about green energy, just a more elaborate one.

Kind of like when California mandated electrage drayage trucks at its ports...so the port operators promptly complied and ordered up industrial diesel generators to charge up their trucks overnight since they couldn't get enough power from the utility for the purpose.

I've seen a version of it in Chinese-from-China grad students too. Not as pervasive, and not quite the same (they'll work their asses off on a dead end for the sole purpose of showing they work hard, rather than merely appearing to look good), but there's definitely something there that doesn't happen with Americans or Europeans.

8 psi is 16kft
8kft is 11 psi and what airline cabins are pressurized to

I would be more concerned about oxygen ingress than absolute pressure given that iphones seem to do reasonably well at altitude.